Dreaming About Next Year’s Garden

Happy New Year!  It’s the last day of 2009, and I’m still back in Olympia, WA visiting my family.  My New Year’s Eve is going to be rather boring.  But I’ve been having fun poring over all the seed catalogs that have arrived here this month (I’m afraid my mailbox back in DC will be [...]

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Getting the Garlic in the Ground

Garlic, I have learned this past year, is something you plant in the fall and harvest in the spring and summer.  In fact, seed catalogs will only mail you seed garlic in the fall. Thus, the fall garlic planting is something of a rite among gardeners as they end one year’s growing season and look [...]

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Fall Planting Strategy: Survival of the Fittest

According to the fall planting schedule, the time for planting several fall crops is already past.  Since I hadn’t gotten around to plotting out my fall garden map in excruciating detail (like I did in the spring), I kept putting things off and therefore missed a lot of the recommended planting dates.  So a week [...]

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Summer Round-Up: The Best (and Worst) of the Rest

Phew.  After posts detailing my garden’s tomatoes, root vegetables, nightshades and cucurbits, I am finally ready to close the loop on my summer round-up.  The remaining vegetables are mostly brassicas and herbs, with a few other randoms in the mix. Collard Greens: I got one good harvest of collards early in the summer, which my [...]

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Summer Round-Up: Nightshades and Cucurbits

Alright, so I’ve reviewed all my tomatoes and all my root vegetables for the year.  And yet there are STILL too many veggies left for one more post.  I’ll start with the remaining members of the nightshade family, then move on to cucurbits.  Tomorrow I’ll finish up with brassicas and herbs. Señorita Jalapeño Peppers: All [...]

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Summer Round-Up: Root Vegetables

Yesterday I reviewed all the tomatoes I grew this year, and yet there are still so many other veggies that I can’t possible fit the remainder into one post.  So today I’ll tackle all the root vegetables. I’ll start with the alliums and move on to beets and carrots and potatoes. Cipollini Onions: These have [...]

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